Philippe Matheron full name Pierre Philippe Émile Matheron (29 October 1807 – 1899) was a French

palaeontologist Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossi ...

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geologist A geologist is a scientist who studies the solid, liquid, and gaseous matter that constitutes Earth and other terrestrial planets, as well as the processes that shape them. Geologists usually study geology, earth science, or geophysics, althou ...

. He was born on October 29, as the son of Jean Esprit Matheron and Rosalie Françoise Sansan. On June 7, 1896, Matheron was awarded a gold medal by the Academy of Marseille to mark his 60th year as an academic. Matheron named the

dinosaur Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria. They first appeared during the Triassic period, between 243 and 233.23 million years ago (mya), although the exact origin and timing of the evolution of dinosaurs is t ...

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Hypselosaurus ''Hypselosaurus'' (meaning 'highest lizard', from Greek meaning 'high' or 'lofty' and meaning 'lizard') is a dubious genus of titanosaurian sauropod that lived in southern France during the Late Cretaceous, approximately 70 million years ago in ...

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Rhabdodon ''Rhabdodon'' (meaning "fluted tooth") is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived in Europe approximately 70-66 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous. It is similar in build to a very robust " hypsilophodont" (non-iguanodont ornithopod), tho ...

'', and the crocodilian '' Crocodylus affuvelensis'' (now in its own genus, ''

Massaliasuchus ''Massaliasuchus'' is an extinct monospecific genus of allodaposuchid eusuchian crocodyliform that is known from fossils found in Santonian–Campanian-age Upper Cretaceous rocks of southeastern France. Systematics ''Massaliasuchus'' was first ...

'') in 1869, in addition to describing the first eggshells that are now considered dinosaurs.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Matheron, Philippe French paleontologists 1807 births 1899 deaths